The rumours about Windows possibly being ported to ARM has left a lot of people bewildered; why would you port Windows NT when Windows CE 6.0 is a perfectly capable operating system? Putting all the pieces together, it's actually quite clear why you would want Windows NT on ARM: servers.

Businesses buy things because of big names attached to them. With the right amount of marketing, you can get many small businesses to buy into a new business model.

This is just a device. However, Microsoft is getting their clock cleaned by Google, Apple, Amazon, and a large amount of Linux-based providers that offer cloud-based services to support small businesses. Cisco may finally be showing what they dropped all that cash for Linksys for at CES and over the calendar year instead of routers and wireless cards.

Microsoft's business model of obscure licensing methods, rampant piracy of their products due to said licensing methods, the overall complexity of their products to set up and configure (It's really hard for most people to admit, but Linux is getting really easy for most SMB tasks), especially compared to Cisco and Apple, and the requirement to have multiple servers to handle a simple small office is dying off.

It's not that people can't make everything work together. It's that people aren't going to do it if they don't have to, and companies like Google give people that reason because they can.

If they don't do something, Cisco, Google, Canonical, Apple, Red Hat, or a business based on their products will finish the job.

Microsoft needs to adapt to survive. Windows on ARM is a small piece of the overall puzzle in transforming their business model to allow for recurring revenue. It could be Windows on Atom, however, this is one small piece of what they need to do to finally break the silos and stop the bleeding.

YES ( sorry for the shouting, but nobody seems to understand what I'm saying)! I Agree with all of that, except I'm *completely* confused why ARM is even involved at all.

To me, its like arguing that water is wet, therefore everyone should eat more vegetables on Tuesdays. Yes water is wet, duh. Yes everyone should eat more vegetables. But why on Tuesdays? And what the hell does that have to do with the wetness of water?

Every time I say that it does not make sense, Someone ( well intentioned, I'm sure) Responds back arguing that water is indeed wet and vegetables are good for you and I'm crazy for thinking otherwise.

On some sense, its like I'm getting trolled by the universe in this thread.